"I'm like a pioneer," he said. "No-one from the WWE, except for Stacy Keibler, but no guys have done the show before and showed wrestlers can be light on their feet. I'm like an ambassador!"

As for whether he received support from his WWE colleagues during his time on the dancefloor, he said: "Every time you do the show, because so many people watch it, I come back to the dressing room and have about 70 texts from friends and wrestlers.

"When you first say you are doing the show there are guffaws aplenty. You think, 'Please don't let me be the first guy kicked off!' Once you make it through that round and start moving forward, people get behind you. All my friends who were the WWE sticklers at first were like, 'Come on Jericho! Let's go, let's go!'"